1973
GO TO QUO LYRICS PART II - 1977 / 1981
Here you are some lyrics from 1968 to 1981 . Most of them are included on the albums except some singles . The following records haven´t got the lyrics : "Picturesque..." - "Spare Parts" - "Ma Kelly´s Greasy Spoon" - "Rockin´All over the world" - "Just Supposin´"
Pictures Of Matchstick Men
(Rossi) - 1968
When I look up to the sky
I see your eyes in funny
Kind of yellow
I rush home to bed
I soak my head
I see your face
Underneath my pillow
I wake next morning
Tired still yawning
See your face come
Peeping through my window
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Mirages of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you
Windows echo your reflection
When I look in their direction now
When will this haunting stop
Your face it just won't
Leave me alone
Pictures of matchstick men and you
Mirages of matchstick men and you
All I ever see is them and you
Oh you're in the sky
You make men cry, you lie
Elizabeth dreams
(Wilde / Scott) - 1968
Elizabeth dreams
Of the day
When the way
That I looked at her
Made her feel
She was real
Elizabeth dreams
Of the time
She was mine
When she didn't need any more
She was sure
She was sure
Out of sight
By candlelight
And see green
And see green horses
I said she's out of sight
By candlelight
And fairy
Fairy stories
Elizabeth is not what she seems
Elizabeth dreams
Elizabeth dreams
Holding fast
Through the past
When a morning
Was something new
Flowers grew
Elizabeth dreams
But it's late
And she waited too long
And tomorrow goes
Now she knows
Sheila
(Tommy Roe) - 1968
Sweet little Sheila
You'll know her if you see her
Blue eyes and a ponytail
Cheeks are rosy
She looks a little nosey
Man, this little girl is fine
Never knew a girl
Like my little Sheila
Her name drives me insane
Sweet little girl
That's my little Sheila
Man, this little girl is fine
Me and Sheila go for a ride
Feel funny inside
Then little Sheila
Whispers in my ear
I love you Sheila dear
Sheila said she loves me
She said she'd never leave me
True love that will never die
We're doggone happy
Just me and her together
Man, this little girl is fine
Paradise Flat
(Wilde/ Scott) - 1968
She was sold at the paradise flats
Tell me, what d'you think of that?
No goodbye Just a pat on the back
Well I know she's made her mind up
That she don't need me around
what you're trying to do to me
Your trying to screw me down
Right through the ground oh yeah
In paradise flats there's rooms for hire
No-one cares who you are
You won't come back, it's too late now
You've been seen too much I know what you are
You won't come back, no you won't come back
Spicks and Specks
(B. Gibb) - 1968
Where is the sun
That shone on my head
The sun in my life
It is dead, it is dead
Where is the light
That would stay in my street
And where are the friends
I could meet, I could meet
Where are the girls
I left far behind
The spicks and the specks
Of the girls on my mind
Where is the girl
I have loved all along
The girl that I love
She is gone, she is gone
All of my life
I've tossed with the day
The spicks and the specks
Of my life gone away
Ice In The Sun
(Wilde / Scott) - 1968
I'm not a little boy
I've lived alone and loved so many more
But when she touches me
I melt away I'm underneath the floor
Like ice in the sun I melt away
whenever she comes I melt away
like ice in the sun I melt away
I sit down in a chair
and read a book as if I couldn't care
But she is in the room
and I must look I see her everywhere
She opens up her eyes as if to speak
she looks at me an I am weak
Her eyes they seem much bigger than before
I cannot think anymore
Do You Live In Fire
(Lancaster) - 1969
Do you live in fire
Cause Satans in your soul
You treat me like I was dead
The reason doesnt show
Satan lives in your soul
Cause you keep doin me wrong
Doin wrong
Do you live in fire
Or is it just your way
To keep me longing for you
Or keep me far away
When I look into your eyes
You seem so clear and cool
But when I smile you turn away
And I feel such a fool
Satan lives in your soul
Cause you keep doin me wrong
Doin wrong
Down The Dustpipe
(Groszman - 1970)
Heading down to the turnpike
Sign posts are pointing west
Fell into the lonely dust
I hope my pick-up can stand the test
But I'm doing alright now ....
rollin down the dustpipe
Rolling down the dustpipe now.
I gotta 10 dollar bill in my jeans
aint no room for a kosher cowboy
in a town like New Orleans
but I'm doing alright now
rollin down the dustpipe
Guess I didnt make it in the city
but thats just the way that it goes
a lot of lunatics
crazy gooks to me
who dont like the shape of my nose
but I'm doing alright now
rollin down the dustpipe
In My Chair
(Rossi / Young) - 1970
I saw her talkin' now, my ears were burning,
Her feet strted walkin' down, then they started turning.
My eyes were half open but she didn't see me there,
We ran along walking 'cross the rooftops in my chair.
Had a car in my pocket and we started movin'
A man in a helmet said, what's that you're using?
Minds were out boating, but we didn't see him there,
Put the car back in my pocket and I'm still here in my
chair.
My teeth were laughing now, we couldn't stop smiling.
We danced at the mystery bin(?) without even trying.
My eyes were half open but we didn't see him there,
We ran along walking 'cross the rooftops in my chair
Junior's Wailing
(White / Pugh) - 1970
Love me babe, will you love me when I'm down.
I said Love me babe, will you love me when I'm down.
Oh you gotta love me baby cos therese no use hanging
around.
Put your arms around me, like a (sunbeam around a sun
)
I said put your arms around me, like a (sunbeam around
a sun )
Oh you gotta love me woman cos my love's just begun.
April Spring Summer
And Wednesdays
(Rossi / Young - 1970)
I can't leave
But I won't stay here.
If I stay
I still won't be here.
I am the grass upon which she lays
April, spring, summer and wednesdays
I am the hand that feeds her always
I am the bed upon which she plays.
I can't leave
But I won't stay here.
If I stay
I still won't be here.
I am the feathers in her pillow
Anyway I hide she knows I know
I am the sunshine through her window
Anyway I go, she goes, we go
Daughter
(Lancaster - 1970)
You and I can see what’s going wrong
We know we don’t like it going wrong
Daughter can you have sons for yourself
Daughter can you have some for yourself
All our whiskered friends their wings and life
Who knows what ‘o’ ever reason why
Daughter can you have sons for yourself
Daughter can you have some for yourself
Listen to the sound of lowry pride
Seen her in the truth within her life
Daughter can you have sons for yourself
Daughter can you have some for yourself
Shy Fly
(Rossi/Young - 1970)
Come let me take you - said tiger to the fly
You’ll never make me - said fly, I’m rather shy
I’m gonna get you - said tiger with declare
His eyes were ashining - but fly she was aware
Shy fly - keep on smiling - rather keep on smiling - everyday
Shy fly - keep on smiling - rather keep on smiling -
everyday
Shy fly - keep on smiling - you’d better keep on smiling
- everyday
This fly and tiger - turned each other on
Their teasing and they’re fighting - makes loving much
more fun
Fly gets in together - and tiger thinks she’s won
That fly she keeps on smiling - is not the only one
Spinning Wheel Blues
(Rossi/Young - 1970)
Well I spent my money on spinning wheels last night
Well I spent my money on spinning wheels last night
I were at red twenty-seven - didn’t do me right
Well I waited smiling but I came out feeling down
Well I waited smiling but I came out feeling down
Well now that I’m a poor man - I got no friends around
I went high on that lonesome, high on that lonesome hill
I went high on that lonesome, high on that lonesome hill
I did a whole lot of money - so I could pay my bills
Well the spinning wheel blues made me packing my bags
and go
Well the spinning wheel blues made me packing my bags
and go
I had to leave my hotel - they don’t want me no more
Lakky Lady
(Rossi/Parfitt) - 1970
Ah well I've got a woman and I love love her so
She is big fat and lazy but I want you all to know
That I love her And I need that woman so
She is my little lady And I'm glad that you all
know
And when she wakes in the morning and her figure tells
no lies
My eyesight is frozen when the light shines on her thighs
But I love her And I need that woman so
Oh well how could I tell you What I'd do if she should
go
And I love her And I need that woman so
Oh well how can I tell you
What I would do if she should go
Well now she is so lazy how she moves I'll never know
She was so different eleven years ago
But I love her And I need that woman so
She's a big lakky lady But I love that woman so
Railroad
(Rossi / Young ) - 1971
Railroad she left me standing on a line
Railroad she´s really leaving me this time
Leaving on the midnight train
Leaving never gonna come back again
I´m living alone
A place of my own
A bed a chair and one back door
Something went wrong
With the words to my song
And now she ain´t around no more
It was something she said
As she laid on my bed
Six or seven hours ago
I guess I was wrong
I really didn´t think she would go
Railroad she left me standing on a line
Railroad she´s really leaving me this time
Leaving on the midnight train
Leaving never gonna come back again
Her face was always smiling
Guess she was always laughing at me
I said her face was always smiling
Guess she was always laughing at me
If I´d realised
I´d be less suprised
To find that she was laughing at me
Tune To The Music
(Rossi / Young) - 1971
Excuse me crying
Can't you hear what I'm saying?
I guess I'm going
Going on my way.
I know there's something
something's going wrong now
There's no tune to the music.
My eyes are burning
Can't anybody hear me?
My head is turning
I need somebody near me.
But since you wonder
Everything is so wrong.
There's tune to the music.
The sounds are ringing
the emptiness is all mine.
Nobody bringing
the thing to make me feel fine.
I know there's something
something's going wrong now.
there's no tune to the music.
No words to my song.
Don't Waste My Time
(Rossi/Young) - 1973
You spend my money
You drink my best red wine,
You think its funny To see me all the time
Sitting with my head hanging down.
Treating me just like a clown,
You spend my money But come on honey,
Don't waste my time.
When you get older You'll see what you have done
You hung on my shoulder And loved me just for fun.
But someday when I'm older too
I'm gonna come and make a fool out of you
You spend my money, honey, You sure did waste my time.
O Baby
(Rossi / Parfitt) -
1973
O baby, why don't you come home?
O baby, why don't you come home?
O baby, you've been away for far too long.
When you get home I'm gonna sing you this song.
Ain't gonna moan Cos you've been treating me wrong.
O baby, You've been away for far too long.
A Year
(Lancaster/Frost) - 1973
Standing by the roadside
Begging for a ride
I've been waiting so long
A year has gone.
Long at all the people
Strangers everyone
I've been looking so long
A year has gone.
You were all I lived for
I guess my life is through
I've been living so long I can't go on.
Lonely Sunday morning,
Rest in peace my love.
You've been sleeping so long
A year has gone
How could I ever start to tell you
The end is almost here.
The song of love is ringing in my ears,
Playing loud, playing clear.
The song will never change,
The memory will always be so near.
Paper Plane
(Rossi/Young) - 1973
Riding on a big white butterfly
I turned my back away towards the sky.
I closed my eyes to look for something.
Saw myself as really nothing,
Then I realised my butterfly
Wasn't really up there with me.
We all make mistakes, forgive me,
Would you like to ride my butterfly?
Riding on a long blue paper plane,
Getting seasick, sorry once again.
Landing strip is getting nearer,
Hope the fog lifts, make it clearer.
Then I realised my paper plane
Wasn't really up there with me.
We all make mistakes, forgive me.
Would you like to ride my paper plane?
Riding in a three grand Deutcher car
A to B is often very far
Home is near but such a long way.
Legs and heads all feel the wrong way,
Then I realised my Deutcher car
Is only there to get me somewhere
Even so really do care
Would you like to ride my Deutcher car?
All The Reasons
(Parfitt/Lancaster) - 1973
When I find myself is trouble,
And I need someone to lean on, I only have to call
And you're right there by my side.
Cos I can't help my feelings
And I can't hide my love for you
And I'll always believe in
All the things that you want me to.
When I can't see all the reasons
Why you have to be so far.
I wonder if our love Is really here to stay.
And you tell me not to worry
Cos you being there won't be long.
I only live in hope That you just can't be wrong.
Unspoken Words
(Rossi /Young) - 1973
If I could only share with you
Once more the fruits of yesterday.
Could I forget unspoken words?
The changing colours of your ways.
I can still see you standing there,
Clutching my hand, begging no to go.
Don't hide the tears, I'm crying too;
It doesn't matter you must know.
I'm always with you by your side,
Watching over you feeling every pain.
Hold your head high think of me there,
I'll soon be with you once again.
Roll Over Lay Down
( Rossi / Young / Lancaster / Parfitt / Coghlan )
- 1973
When I got home that night
Early one morning
Seeing the note written in ink
Pinned to the door
Taking a drink cool from the fridge
Walk from the table
I drank a toast you were the most
The night before
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over
It´s a long way where I´ve been
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over lay down
When I get home tomorrow night
After this morning
Show me the care you showed in the note
The night before
Maybe I won´t take a drink
From the table
Reckon I´ll lay me straight
Down the floor
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over
It´s a long way where I´ve been
Roll over lay down and let me in
Roll over lay down
When I get home tomorrow night
After this morning
Show me the care you showed in the note
The night before
Maybe I won´t take a drink
From the table
Reckon I´ll lay me straight
Down the floor
Claudie
(Rossi/Young) - 1973
It's so long since
I sang songs for you.
I forget all the world
I once knew
I could look back
But I can't waste the time.
Did it matter
They sometimes didn't rhyme.
It's so long since
I sang songs to you.
It's so long since you smiled just for me
Now your smile's just an old used to be.
Does it matter That I can't take the time.
Would you rather I write you one more line.
Can my songs once again be for you?
Claudie made a fool out of me.
Made me find another place to be.
I've been living alone In a house that wasn't my home
With Claudie is the place I want to be.
When I left did you think of me crying
Did you care that I felt I was dying?
I've pretended That I don't give a damn.
All along I've known what I really am.
I'm a fool little Claudie just for you.
A Reason For Living
(Rossi/Parfitt) - 1973
I felt in need of some loving
So I sat down on a wall
I tried to find a reason for living.
But I couldn't find a reason at all
So I owned up to my maker,
And I started to say a prayer.
I waited for the answer
But there wasn't anybody there.
I thought there should have been someone
But I wasn't quite sure who
It finished me to find there was no one.
That I could take my trouble to.
So I knelt down by my bedside
And I started to say a prayer.
It was when I asked for nothing
I could feel that there was somebody there.
I'm looking still but it's easy
Cos I know which way to go.
It doesn't matter how long it takes me
Cos there's someone there to help me who knows
All the things that I am after
All the loving that I want to share.
It's so hard but I don't mind
Cos there really is somebody there.
Blue Eyed Lady
(Lancaster/Parfitt) - 1973
Little Blue Eyed Lady,
How come you'll all alone?
I've been asking No-one seem to know
To whom do you belong, Little Blue Eyed Lady.
The band are really moving,
Everyone is grooving around.
Little Lady! You're still sitting down,
Excuse me if you will Little Blue Eyed Lady.
The party's nearly over,
Your eyes still read the same.
Are you looking For one who never came?
Are you passing cloud Or a New found baby
Little a new found baby
How come you're all alone?
I've been asking No-one seems to know.
Are you passing cloud Little Blue Eyed Lady?
Softer Ride
(Lancaster/Parfitt) - 1973
I ain't gonna work,
I ain't gonna work no more.
Stay in bed till I'm satisfied
Let my head take a softer ride,
I ain't gonna work,
I ain't gonna work no more.
I ain't gonna work, I ain't gonna work no more.
Find me a shack where it's cool inside.
Turn my back on the cold outside.
I ain't gonna work, I ain't gonna work no more.
I could go back to the job I had,
But the same old job only drives me mad.
So I ain't gonna work,
I ain't gonna work no more.
Never again will I have to be down.
And Ist's Better Now
(Rossi /Young) - 1973
Riding along
On the words of a song in my head
Thinking all day
Of the thoughts in my mind never said
I have needed a friend
Over and over again.
Everyone sings of a God they have known
Now I have a God of my own.
And it's better now
Been a long long time.
And it's better now that the words can rhyme.
Got to have something to sing about
Everyone must have a song
Now I've got something to sing about
Everyone's singing my song.
Drifting away
Never wishing to be anyone
Never a question
A reason to find right or wrong
When I looked at the end
Over and over again.
Riding along on the words of a song
Thinking my time had all gone.
Caroline
( Rossi / Young ) - 1973
If you want to turn me onto
Anything you really want to
Turn me onto your love sweet love
If the night-time is the right time
Anytime of yours is my time
We can find time for love sweet love
Come on sweet Caroline
You´re my sweet Caroline
You know I want to take you
I´ve really got to make you
Come on sweet Caroline
Take my hand together we can rock-n-roll
When I´m thinking of you sleeping
I´m at home alone and weeping
Are you keeping your love sweet love
Do you still care when I´m not there
Do you really wish I was there
Can I come there for love sweet love
Forty-Five Hundred Times
(Rossi / Parfitt)
There's nobody on the end of the line,
I'm in time but somebody's missing.
Maybe I can find a hand for my hand
If I find a well for my wishing.
Be my friend, be my friend.
It gets lonely on a table for two
Laughing on your own can be no fun.
Even people that are talking to you
Remind you that you're really with no-one.
Be my friend, be my friend.
Forty-five hundred times
I told you how much I care.
Forty-five hundred times
I told you how much I care.
Problems halved are
Problems that we can share.
White lies in your eyes
Together not really there.
Forty-five hundred times
I told you could lean on me.
Forty-five hundred times
I told you could lean on me.
Though it's taken
A long time for you to see.
Right here by me is
Is still the right place to be.
I sure want to stay here
It sure feels fine I feel I could be here
A long long time.
Now that we've made it I don't want to fade it.
Now that I've made it with you.
We came a long way
A slow way too.
Up from the down way
And back to you.
Now that we've made it I don't want to fade it
Now that I've made it with you.
Backwater
(Parfitt/Lancaster) - 1974
Down at Backwater Junction, rollin out on the line,
In the dark early morning I heard the 1:49.
I was walking down the highway, needing somewhere to
go,
Baby laid beside me, she invited me home.
She left me cold, tired and hungry, down the backwater
road.
In a house on the corner, looking over the track,
I woke up with a fever and a pain in my back.
She was lying there beside me, my fever started to grow,
I had a funny feeling, but the lady said no,
The lover ???? down the Backwater road.
What you looking for, what you looking for?
Baby do you know what you're looking for?
Whas I right to play along?
Baby was I right or baby was I wrong?
Down at Backwater Junction, you got me breathing in time,
It's still early in the morning and I'm feeling alright.
I went back to my lady, but I wasn't to know,
Lady left this morning and she's not coming home.
I was cold when whe left me, down at backwater road.
Break The Rules
( Rossi/Young/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan ) - 1974
Spent a long, long evening
In a low down honky-tonk bar
Pulled a low down lady
With a long black honky-tonk car
I asked no questions
I got no lies
A one off winner
I didn't want any ties
And I knew it wasn't right
Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Took me down on the highway
Doing too many miles an hour
By the way she motored
Thought we might have made the Eiffel Tower
She stopped the motor
By her own front door
I knew she'd done it
So many times before
But I was off of the floor
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
I woke up next morning
Feeling kind of up and down
'Cos I did not know
If I was in or out of the town
Then I saw the face
From the night before
My purse was empty
Lying there on the floor
But like I told you before
That, everybody has to sometimes break the rules
I spend a low down evening
Sitting high on a honky-tonk stool
And I spent my money
Like a low down honky-tonk fool
But everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Well, everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Yes, everybody has to sometimes break the rules
Slow Train
(Rossi-Young) - 1974
I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota Airplane,
Gotta jump on a ride on a cattle trucking slow train.
Guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
I wrote a rocking song, Gonna sing it at the station,
Finish all the words when I reach my destination.
Guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
Hey mamma, please now don't you fret none,
Don't worry please don't you forget
Hey mamma please don't get upset none,
Gotta leave and find me something better.
Hey Mamma, things are gonna work out fine now,
Believe me need for you to write.
Hey Mamma, things are gonna work out fine now,
I've got a friend said that she'd invite me.
I came here in the morning,
And I crept out in the middle of the night.
I gave nobody warning I was leaving,
And felt it was right.
Now I'm off again,
And it sure is feeling alright.
Got a feeling that I'm leaving
with a ticket and I won't jump a ride
It's no good you believing
that my leaving was a-wrong, it was right
Now I'm off again,
And it sure is feeling alright.
I can't afford a ticket on an old Dakota airplane,
I gotta jump a ride on a cattle trucking slow train.
I guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
I wrote a rocking song, gonna sing it at the station,
I'll finish all the words when I reach my destination.
I guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
I guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
I guess it doesn't matter,
As long as I can get my head down in the sun.
Down Down
( Rossi / Young ) - 1975
Get down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Get down deeper and down
I want all the world to see
To see you´re laughing
And you´re laughing at me
I can take it all from you
Again again again again again again again
Deeper and down
I have all the ways you see
To keep you guessing
Stop your messing with me
You´ll be back to find your way
Again again again again again again again
Deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Get down
I have found out you see
I know what you´re doing
What you`re doing to me
I´ll keep on and say to you
Again again again again again again again
Deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Down down deeper and down
Get down
Over And Done
( Lancaster ) - 1975
I really didn´t wanna break it
You know I´m sorry it´s over and done
I really thought we would have made it
But now it´s gone
Can you look into my eyes and tell me
That there´s nothing wrong
I know you know it´s not the same
It´s not the same old song
It´s over and over and over
I told you It´s over and done
None of us are getting younger
But we all want to be a millionaire
And when you stop to think about it It seems unfair
But if you never stop to think at all
You´d never be aware
And never understand the meaning
Of the love we shared I´ts over and over
I told you I´ts over It´s only fair
Oh it´s over and over
I told you I´ts over and done
It´s no good trying to make it better
You know it´s doesn´t feel the right to do
Everything we shared together
Would break in two
Can you hear what I´ve been trying to say
I wouldn´t do you wrong
We´ve got to get it over now and learn
To carry on I´ts over and over and over
I told you It´s over and done
I´ts over and over and over
I told you It´s over and done
Oh it´s over and over I told you
It´s over and done